THORNTON OF TYERSAL

 

I have not researched the earlier generations of the Thorntons in detail. Accounts of the family are given in:

 

Ralph Thoresby, Ducatus Leodiensis (London, 1715), 22-23

J.W. Clay, ed., Dugdale’s Visitation of Yorkshire, with Additions, 3 vols (Exeter, 1899-1917), 1:133-36

Wilfrid Robertshaw, “The Hamlet or Manor of Tyersall”, The Bradford Antiquary, 9(1940-52):161-89

 

Some of the ancestry of Beatrice (Tempest) Thornton is traced in the work of Eleanor Blanche Tempest.

 

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THORNTON

 

1          WILLIAM THORNTON of Tyersal, Calverley, Yorkshire, gentleman, died on 13 November 1579 and was buried on 16 November 1579 at Tong.[1] He married in 1563, BEATRICE TEMPEST,[2] daughter of Henry and Ellen (Mirfield) Tempest. Beatrice was buried on 24 January 1617/18 at Bradford.[3] After the death of William Thornton, she married on 27 August 1581 at Tong, William Shirtcliffe.[4]

 

Children of William and Beatrice (Tempest) Thornton:

2              i               RICHARD THORNTON (1565-1613); m ELIZABETH HOBSON.

ii             ANN THORNTON; m HUMPHREY CORDINGLEY.[5]

iii            ELIZABETH THORNTON, bur 27 Mar 1647, Worsbrough;[6] m(1) 31 Aug 1591, Tong, MARK FOXCROFT;[7] m(2) ca 1597, ROBERT ELMHIRST.[8]

iv            TEMPEST THORNTON, bap 20 Feb 1574/75, Calverley.[9]

v              ELLEN THORNTON, bap Aug 1578, Calverley,[10] bur 21 Oct 1602, Calverley.[11]

 

2          RICHARD THORNTON of Tyersal, gentleman, was born in 1565[12] and died on 24 April 1613.[13] He married on 2 September 1588 at Silkstone, ELIZABETH HOBSON,[14] daughter of John and Ann (Swift) Hobson (see here). Elizabeth was baptised on 8 July 1571 at Silkstone and died in 1617.

 

Children of Richard and Elizabeth (Hobson) Thornton:

i               SARAH THORNTON, bap 1590, Silkstone,[15] bur 20 Jun 1624, Holy Trinity, King’s Court, York;[16] m 26 Apr 1614, Bradford, JOHN VAUX.[17]

ii             ELLEN THORNTON; m 18 Apr 1615, Bradford, JOHN BURROWES[18] (see here).

iii            DOROTHY THORNTON; m(1) 23 Jan 1620/21, Holy Trinity, King’s Court, York, HENRY TONG;[19] m(2) 16 Jun 1634, Dunnington, WILLIAM ALDER.[20]

iv                       THORNTON, bur 16 Dec 1597, Calverley.[21]

v              ALICE THORNTON, bap 23 Sep 1599, Tong,[22] bur 27 Feb 1599/1600, Calverley.[23]

vi            TEMPEST THORNTON of Tyersal and Linthwaite, bap 8 Mar 1600/01, Bradford,[24] d ca 1630;[25] m 12 Feb 1620/21, Almondbury, MARGARET LOCKWOOD.[26]

vii           ANN THORNTON, bap 7 Mar 1601/02, Calverley,[27] bur 14 Mar 1601/02, Calverley.[28]

viii          ELIZABETH THORNTON, bur 24 Feb 1602/03, Calverley.[29]

ix            WILLIAM THORNTON of York, merchant, bap 18 Dec 1603, Calverley,[30] bur 30 Mar 1632, St Martin cum Gregory, York.[31]

x              RICHARD THORNTON, bap 3 Feb 1604/05, Calverley.[32]

xi            JOHN THORNTON, bap 21 Sep 1606, Calverley.[33]

xii           ANN THORNTON, bap 21 Sep 1607, Bradford,[34] bur 3 Apr 1650, St Peter, Leeds;[35] m 3 Oct 1627, Almondbury, ANTHONY WARWICK.[36]

xiii          PHEBE THORNTON, bap 5 Nov 1608, Bradford,[37] bur 26 Feb 1635/36, St Peter, Leeds;[38] m 5 Sep 1633, Leeds, ROBERT ASKWITH.[39]

xiv          CALEB THORNTON, bap 13 Oct 1611, Bradford,[40] bur 18 Feb 1611/12, Bradford.[41]


[1] National Archives, C 142/189/75; Tong parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[2] Joseph Jackson Howard and Frederick Arthur Crisp, Visitation of England and Wales, Notes, vol. 2 (London, 1897), 12-17; Joseph Foster, ed., The Visitation of Yorkshire, made in the Years 1584/5, to which is added the Subsequent Visitation made in 1612 (London, 1875), 579.

[3] Bradford parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[4] Tong parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[5] The will of Ellen Thornton includes a legacy to “my sister Anne… and to ev[er]y one of her Children a Cowe and to my godsonne Tempest Cordley xxs more”. The baptism of Tempest, son of Humphrey Cordingley, on 30 Mar 1600, is recorded in the Tong parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com). The will of Elizabeth (Hobson) Thornton leaves “unto my brother Humphray Cordingley one Angell of gould and to my sister his wife my best hatt”. See also Ralph Thoresby, Ducatus Leodiensis (London, 1715), 23.

[6] Worsbrough parish registers; John William Clay, ed., Yorkshire Royalist Composition Papers, vol. 1 (London, 1893), 227. There are two successive annual sequences of burials labelled 1647 in the parish registers.

[7] Tong parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[8] J.W. Clay, ed., Dugdale’s Visitation of Yorkshire, with Additions, 3 vols (Exeter, 1899-1917), 3:411-12. Mark Foxcroft was buried at Leeds on 14 Jan 1596/97 (St Peter, Leeds, parish registers, online at www.ancestry.com) and Elizabeth’s son Richard with her second husband Robert Elmhirst was baptised at Worsbrough on 10 Sep 1598 (Worsbrough parish registers).

[9] Samuel Margerison, Registers of the Parish Church of Calverley, 3 vols (Bradford, 1880-87), 1:41.

[10] Samuel Margerison, Registers of the Parish Church of Calverley, 3 vols (Bradford, 1880-87), 1:45.

[11] Calverley parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com); will dated 10 Oct 1602, proved 12 May 1603 (Borthwick Institute).

[12] National Archives, C 142/189/75.

[13] National Archives, C 142/338/61. However, the index entry for his will indicates that a codicil was dated 29 Apr 1613: Index of Wills in the York Registry, A.D. 1612 to 1619 (Worksop, 1900), 119. An abstract of Richard’s will is in Charles A. Federer, “West Riding Cartulary”, The Bradford Antiquary, n.s. 3(1907-11):26-36, although the date of 18 Apr 1615 given there for the writing should be 1613.

[14] Silkstone parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com); Joseph Foster, ed., The Visitation of Yorkshire, made in the Years 1584/5, to which is added the Subsequent Visitation made in 1612 (London, 1875), 579.

[15] Silkstone parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[16] Holy Trinity, King’s Court, York, parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).

[17] Bradford parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com); C.B. Norcliffe, “Paver’s Marriage Licenses”, The Yorkshire Archæological Journal, 12(1893):429-32, at 431; will of Elizabeth (Hobson) Thornton.

[18] Bradford parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com); C.B. Norcliffe, “Paver’s Marriage Licenses”, The Yorkshire Archæological Journal, 13(1895):371-86, at 380; will of Elizabeth (Hobson) Thornton (“Ellen my daughter now wife of the said John Burrowes”).

[19] Holy Trinity, King’s Court, York, parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk); Ralph Thoresby, Ducatus Leodiensis (London, 1715), 23.

[20] Dunnington parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com); J.W. Clay, ed., Paver’s Marriage Licences (Worksop, 1909), 44.

[21] Calverley parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com): “the sonne of Richerd Thornton buryed”.

[22] Tong parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[23] Calverley parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[24] Bradford parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com). The baptism of Tempest is also recorded under the date 18 May 1601 in the Calverley parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[25] J.W. Clay, ed., Dugdale’s Visitation of Yorkshire, with Additions, 3 vols (Exeter, 1899-1917), 1:134; National Archives, catalogue entry for C 142/462/133.

[26] Almondbury parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com); Arthur J. Jewers, “Grants and Certificates of Arms”, The Genealogist, 27(1911):183.

[27] Calverley parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[28] Calverley parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[29] Calverley parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com). Elizabeth is mentioned as a daughter of Richard Thornton in the 1602 will of Ellen Thornton.

[30] Calverley parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[31] St Martin cum Gregory, York, parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk); Ralph Thoresby, Ducatus Leodiensis (London, 1715), 23.

[32] Calverley parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[33] Calverley parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[34] Bradford parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[35] St Peter, Leeds, parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[36] Almondbury parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com); Ralph Thoresby, Ducatus Leodiensis (London, 1715), 23.

[37] Bradford parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[38] St Peter, Leeds, parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[39] St Peter, Leeds, parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com); Ralph Thoresby, Ducatus Leodiensis (London, 1715), 23.

[40] Bradford parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).

[41] Bradford parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).